It’s Halloween, and people are wearing costumes, which causes me to think about the many different costumes leaders wear as they navigate the continual changing environments in which they lead. One of the things we know about situational leadership is that with solutions to challenges that leaders face, one size does not fit all.  The […]

I’m not an expert on football; I’m just a fan. I like to watch a close game where the strategy of each coach is on full display as the score goes back and forth regarding who is winning.  I especially enjoy a game when the outcome of the game doesn’t emerge until the very last […]

Anyone who knows me is aware that each fall I go through a ritual each fall of making between 75-125 pumpkin pies from scratch. We make a trek to the local pumpkin patch and pick pumpkins of just the right size, shape, density, and weight and transform them into a delicious pumpkin custard filling for […]

Back in the Clinton administration, a term was coined that many, at the time, might have said would never last, but it is still used today, and certainly by many who have no idea where it came from or to whom it is credited. The term “It takes a village” is now widely used whenever […]

The scene is a classroom where a hundred or so students are seated all facing the inside of a round seating arrangement. At the center is an instructor who speaks of the dangers of the job they are about to begin training for he tells them that it is very possible that someday their job […]